Editor’s Note: Click on the words highlighted in this story to pull up a definition and short research summary. When is a reading test not a true reading test? Most of the time. For years, cognitive ...
“Data-driven” instruction makes sense only if the data that’s driving it makes sense. And much of the data used to guide reading instruction doesn’t. Throughout the school year, classrooms across the ...
A new book argues for the importance of national assessments in the U.S. but overlooks the negative impact of "reading" tests. Few Americans know much about the standardized tests collectively known ...
More school districts are interested in using reading programs designed to build students’ broad knowledge about the world by focusing their reading and writing on specific topics in social studies, ...
When computer models designed by tech giants Alibaba and Microsoft this month surpassed humans for the first time in a reading-comprehension test, both companies celebrated the success as a historic ...
Think back to those pesky reading comprehension tests you used to take in school. Trust me, they are still on the SAT and still challenging. At least, for us carbon-based intelligences. From the ...
The importance of vocabulary knowledge in reading comprehension is well-recognized, and its relationship with comprehension has been widely explored in previous studies. However, there is limited ...